The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 February 1972 — Page 1

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Plan Commission Elects Officers

During a meeting of the Syracuse Town Plan Commission last Thursday evening at the town hail, Col. Joseph Gray was re-elected president for another year Other officers will be: William Beemer — vice president Maurice Crow — secretary Recommendation was given for approval in a petition for a certificate of i approval of the preliminary plat to be known and designated as Woodland Acres, First Addition, and situated south .of Wawasee high school on property owned by Howard and

Arrests Made In Angler's Cove Raid

A planned raid by 15 law enforcement officers around 1 a m. Sunday at Angler’s Cove on the Kh side of Lake Wawasee tiled in arrests of 24 persons, the majority being underage were booked for illegal entry. The popular Ogden Island kavero is owned by Charles Kidd. 26, Syracuse, who charged with contributing to ol a rr.siu wiji ■Lihle other charges to be filed Faii employee. Frederick C. Trews. 27, Syracuse, booked with Kidd at tfie county jail in Warsaw. was released Monday night. He was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor with possible other 'charges also to be filed Fined A total of 22 others paid fines and costs of $46 each in Milo Gases justiceof the peace court at Warsaw late Sunday morning Names and charges follow: Richard Allen Wells, 24, Warsaw, disorderly conduct, Terry L. Bertolino, 22, Goshen, interfering with a law officer; illegal entry. James E Fribley, 19, North Webster; Donald C. Stolikes, 20. North Webster. Gregory Lynn Kern, 20. North Webster. James King Lemberg. Syracuse, Douglas Lee Kuilema. 19, Syracuse, Kenneth M. Hardin. 18. Syracuse; John David Mock. JO. Syracuse and his new bride, Denise Susan Mock. IT; Dennis L. Jones. 20. Syracuse; Kent Allen Renner, 18. Syracuse. Jeffrey K Brock, 19, Syracuse, Edwin Leitch, 18. Albion; Dyle Dwaine Martin. 18, Leesburg, James E Cole, 20. Ligonier; Charles E Willard. 19. Kimmell; Patricia Ann McAndrew,. 19, Nappanee. Lynn Mauzy. 19, Elkhart. and Clifford A. Mauzy. 19. Elkhart Arthea Mae Miller. 17, r 1 Kimmell and Melissa K Nei, 17. r 1 Larwill, both charged with illegal entry, were released to

v r y HLiW^w< ■ x )*F MaCm - J-. - BARN LEVELED — The huge barn on the Alvin Waldbeser farm east of Milford was leveled b> fire Thursday morning. Flame* had broken through Che roof before members of the Milford volunteer fire department | arrived on lhe scene. The loss has been estimated at 112.000. Besides hay and farm equipment six head of cattle were lost in the morning blare including one 4-H animal. A small calf escaped with serious burns. In all some W head of cattle were in the barn at the lime the fire broke out. *. . -

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE - WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

Priscilla Juday The tract consists of five lots. A recommendation was also given for certificate of approval for Robert P. and Gayle A. Ferguson for the plat to be known and designated as Elmwood Estates, consisting of 10 lots, and is located near the KosciuskoNoble county lines. A discussion was held regarding the junk car ordinance and violations however further action was tabled for later meetings. Gray attorney, Bruce Frey were appointed to review zoning ordinances to obtain essential points for a condensed version to

their parents pending appearances in jp court this Saturday Arresting officers in the raid included the county sheriffs department and Syracuse police department. A surprise raid at the same business establishment about thre* weeks ago resulted in the <urt<i o» out Syracuse youth, Michael A. Gark. Bob Spearman Honored At Lions Banquet Bob Spearman of Dewart Lake was honored by the Lions of district 25-D at the silver anniversary banquet held over the week end at Ball State university in Muncie. Spearman was named one of 12 nominees for the state’s silver anniversary team He was presented with a plaque by Dave McCain, head football coach at Ball State and speaker for the evening. Spearman played on the 1947 team at Anderson He and other team members were honored by the Lions at the half time of the Anderson ball game Saturday night Tri-County Planning And Zoning Seminar To Be Held Feb. 3 Tri-County (Kosciusko, Marshall, Starke) planning and zoning seminar will be- held Thursday. Feb. 3. from 9.30 a m. to 2:30 p m at the Holiday Inn, Plymouth. Six area citizens who will attend this meeting are: Maurice Crow and William Beemer from Syracuse, and Don Ahrns, Paul M Brembeck, Norman S. Lovell and John B. Augsburger, all of Milford.

be prepared. A closed session followed the regular meeting to better acquaint new town board members with operations of the town planning commission Members of the commission in addition to Gray are town residents Donald Niles, Charles Miller, William Pipp, along with town board representatives Noble Blocker, Bud Smith and Darrell Grisamer, with one town vacancy expected to be filled in February Representatives from the township, in addition to Gray, are Harold Kuhn, Crow, Beemer. Joe Hughes and Merl Smith.

V / f 1 E. EUGENE LUDWIG X E. E. Ludwig Is VyLactos Vice President E. Eugene (Gene) Ludwig, general manager of the Syracuse plant of VyLactos Laboratories, Inc., has assumed the position of vice president of the entire VyLactos operation. He will remain as general manager at Syracuse. Associated with VyLactos fa* approximately 16 years, Mr. Ludwig’s vice presidency will be over all three plants, located at Syracuse. Saint Paul, Minn., and Des Mornes, lowa. Story Hour At Syracuse Library Children’s librarian Mrs. Oscar Bjella has announced a story hour starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Syracuse Public Library and several short films will be shown. Children of all ages are welcome.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1972

When The Cat’s Away The Mice Will Play! When the cat’s away the mice will play — or so it would appear with a practical joke that backfired at Regent Mobile Homes north of Syracuse early Friday morning. While Big Brother Gaylord and Mrs. Jones (he’s in charge of Regent, a division of Monarch Hones) were vacationing in Hawaii, a spirit of levity appeared to gain momentum last Thursday afternoon at the Regent offices. A prankster made up what appeared to be a bomb, made of flares, an old clock, all taped together, and placed the unseemly device on the floor of plant manager Max Ganshom’s car. Max recognized the device for what it was, took it back into the office and put it on the chair of the party he thought perpetrated the prank. The latter went home without noticing the “bomb” in his office, and all was forgotten until an alert nightwatchman, making his rounds in the night, came across the device. “I didn’t think much of it until I heard the ticking of the clock,” said the watchman who would rather remain anonymous. He called local police, who called Elkhart police who have a bomb squad within their department. A federal bomb squad was also alerted, as were county and state police. “These people remember a number of bomb scares around Elkhart that were the real thing.” states Mike Arnolt, reporter on The Elkhart Truth. Arnolt said there was a February 1969 bomb scare in Elkhart and a car was bombed on Sunday, Jan. 23. And in relation to the mobile home industry, Arnolt remembers, a Turbo-2 Commander airplane belonging to Beck Welding & Manufacturing, EUdhart, was bombed in the hanger of the Elkhart airport on Wednesday. Dec. 29, totally wrecking the $468,000 aircraft. With this unlikely background, any bomb alert squad worth its salt would approach the Regent incident with the utmost caution, and this is what they did, converging on the area plant from all directions. Road 13, which runs past was cordoned off and all traffic re-routed. A telephone call to Ganshorn convinced authorities that it was all a big mistake —a practical joke that backfired. When Jones was back at hifc desk early this week, he noticed a red-faced employee removing a piece of office paneling to do a routine repair job. Jones looked up from his work and observed with monumental nonchalance, “What are you doing, looking for a bomb?”

Help Name Milford Citizen Os The Year

Milford residents have until Monday, Feb. 7, to file their nomination fa* the community's Gtizen of the Year. The announcement was made this week by Paul Kizer, representing the Gtizen of the Year nominating committee of the Milford Area Development Council (MAD). Kizer said the presentation of this year’s outstanding citizen of the Milford area will be made at the awards dinner at the Shrine building at the county fairgrounds at Warsaw on Saturday night, Feb. 19. This will be a ladies’ night affair Dorothea Kerlin First Dorothea (Mrs. Charles) Kerlin was the first Citizen of the Year, named in what proved a surprise to her last May 8 at the

Selected For Special Assignment Diana (Lung) Castell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Lung of I Syracuse, has been chosen for a special assignment according to an announcement this week. An Elkhart project began a little over 10 years ago as a simple experiment in economic education and has grown to have national, even international dimensions. As a continuation of that experiment. Science Research Associates of Chicago is revising editions of materials for grades 1. 2 and 3 and new materials for graders 4, 5 and 6. Mrs. Castell has been chosen as a full-time participant in creating activities for each chapter at the grade 6 level. Her abilities will be used to improve educational materials that will be utilized quite literally by millions of children throughout the United States. She resumes her classroom duties next fall at Mary Daly in Elkhart where she has been teaching for the past year and a half.

Wagon Wheel Restaurant at Warsaw. Mrs. Kerlin is a longtime Milford librarian and a deserving citizen. She will serve on this year’s selection committee. MAD ran two advertisements in The Mail-Journal asking citizens to enter their choice for the coveted award, and Kizer said blanks have been placed in business houses for this purpose. Last year public response to the Gtizen of the Year was excellent, and MAD is expecting a like response this year. The nominating committee is headed by Norm Lovell. All entries will be kept in the strictest confidence, and no word of the selected person will be made known until the February 19 ladies’ night.

GROUNDHOG PROVES UNPREDICTABLE AS A WEATHER EXPERT Today — Wednesday, Feb. 2 — is Groundhog Day, and this is supposed to be a sure sign of weather conditions for the next six weeks. If Mr. Groundhog sees his shadow today, that means six more weeks of bad. winter weather. With a heavy overcast predicted, this is unlikely. However, weather bureau records disclaim this means of foretelling weather conditions. and put down Mr. Groundhog as unreliable in this regard. We’ll see.

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Drugs Taken From Milford Business

Milford police officer Don Drake, county and state officers are continuing the investigation of a break-in at Walter Drugs. Inc., located on Main street in Milford. No definite time was established for the robbery which took place between the time the store closed Thursday night and the time employees arrived on Friday morning. \ • Alan Coy, pharmacist, discovered, the break-in and reported it to officer Drake at 8:55 a.m. The person or persons unknown made off with what Drake estimated to be $250 in drugs, a 38 caliber Smith and W’esson revolver made for the British army in World War 11, an Italianmade 25 automatic Titian, ammunition for both guns and approximately 193 from the store's cash registers. Drake stated the subject or subjects tried to gain entrance through a window on the east of the store, however, after cutting through the screen the thief was stopped by bars across the windows. Entrance was then gained by prying the front door open The drugs taken were locked in a cabinet. The cabinet’s lock was jammed end the cabinet opened. The drug store is owned by N. John Perry of Milford. Variance Granted At Appeals Meeting A variance request was granted at the meeting of the board of zoning appeals last week in Syracuse town hall for Reinoid C. and Willodean Tytler in conditional use of real estate under provisions of the zoning ordinance The request was for conditional use of .2 acres, more or less, located on the south side of Waco drive at Lake Wawasee across from Mock's Marina, to permit parking and storage of boats and pontoons

.. fl| ||j ■ I Ml 5 K O' ■■ I. Il HHHH ■ ® DOOR OPENED — Person or persons unknown pried the door of Walter Drugs in Milford open last Thursday night in order to gain entrance to the Main street business. Taken in the robbery were a quantity of drugs, approximately 190 and two guns and ammunition for both.

Rita Dowty Is Milford's Girls' Stater The American Legion Auxiliary unit 226 of Milford held its monthly meeting February 2 with Mrs. Noble Fisher presiding. Mrs. Raymond Custer, Girls State chairman, read junior girls names and Rita Dowty was chosen delegate with Jane Matthews as alternate. Mrs. Robert Davis reported on community service. Mrs. Marvin Rapp reported on constitution and by-laws. Mrs. Emma Krauter reported sending lap

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robes to the soldier and sailor’s home in Lafayette. Hymn of the month, “When the Roll is Called Up Younder.” Song of the month “Always” was sung. Mrs. Harold Freeman, Veteran’s crafts chairman reported all rugs have been sold. She also reported that the past president’s parley will meet with Mrs. Herbert Felkner in April. Mrs. Dean Baker announced the finance chairman is planning a garage sale in April or May. An auction will be held with Mrs. Stan Scott in charge. The refreshment committee for March is Mrs. Eugene Felkner, Mrs. Ralph Berkeypile, Mrs. Merl Campbell and Mrs. Bud Campbell.